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What are your favorite permaculture practices? (sh.itjust.works)

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Hello! Thank you for creating this community. I hope these sort of text discussion posts are okay.

I'd like to know - how do people here practice permaculture? What sort of habits have you created? What sources do you learn from?

I'm a suburb-bound person who is constantly trying to bring more permaculture practices into my life, and spaces that show me what others are doing really help.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've definitely tried to compost and failed. I think I tried to go too big and I think maybe I didn't account enough for the dry air in the sonoran desert. Whats your compost process like? Does it take much watering?

I do have a local worm farm that lets me pick up compost for super cheap, which is nice - but I'd still like to make better use of my kitchen scraps.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I made that mistake a couple of times. I know most guides say that worms can eat a lot, but I found another that stated worms can go without fresh food for a week. So what I do is have a huge bucket and just put in a very small amount of everything and a tiny bit of dirt. Then once a week, I'll give them food scraps cut up, some leaves, and turn the pile with a spoon. I put a water bottle in with them to help with the temperature. I live in a desert as well so I water them once every three days ish but on one side, that way, if they feel like they have too much water, they can migrate.

One thing I did notice is once the pile got established, the pile itself got easier to self regulate. It seems the best way to get a compost pile started is to literally get some from someone else and start there. I wish more people around me would do composting so we could share.